[Rarebooks] FS: Mawe's "Universal Gardener and Botanist." London: 1797

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(BOTANY) Mawe, Thomas and John Abercrombie. THE UNIVERSAL GARDENER AND 
BOTANIST: OR, A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. Exhibiting in 
Botanical Arrangement, According to the Linnaean System, the Various Genera and 
Species of Plants, Trees... The Second Edition. Carefully Revised, Corrected, 
and Very Much Improved; with the Addition of... Above Five Hundred Species 
of Plants More Than in the Former Edition... And in This Edition Are Added 
Many Descriptive Plates of Green-houses... London: Printed for G. G. and J. 
Robinson, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. 1797. Lg. thick 4to. Unpaginated. 
Double column text. Illustrated with 11 engraved plates (1 folding). Cont. 
gilt decorated calf, front cover a bit scuffed, rebacked some time ago with 
orig. spine strip & red calf label laid down.     $400.00 (trade discount 
allowed)

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